leathghine

Irish

Alternative forms

  • leath-ghine, leith-ghine, leath-ghiní, leathghiní, leith-ghiní (superseded)

Etymology

From leath- +‎ gine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl̠ʲeˌjinʲi/[1] (corresponding to leathghiní)

Noun

leathghine m (genitive singular leathghine, nominative plural leathghiní)

  1. (historical) half guinea (former British coin worth 10 shillings 6 pence)

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 198

Further reading

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